HOMLESS SUPERPOWERS RP

[RutulianJoe]

HOMELESS SUPERPOWER RP

IC

OK, I REALISE NOW THAT WAS SILLY. I APOLOGISE.


HAPPY TRAMPING!

That's right: this long-awaited rp, this subverter of genres, smasher of trends, and horrifically bad role-playing idea has landed!!!!!!!!!

You will be playing a group of the downtrodden- society's forgotten; the homeless, jobless criminals, rejects and madmen who make up the unwashed backside of Los Angeles! Maybe you're a washed-up contract killer, screwed out of the money for your last job, failed on the one before that, and fast approaching the expiration of your dodgy visa! Perhaps you're a street-walking hooker, selling your body to feed your five children and their crack-addict puppy! You could be a drunken ex-banker, living on the streets, a starving teen pickpocket, or a doom-preaching lunatic heroin addict!

This rag-tag group of smelly outcasts is SUDDENLY TRANSFORMED by a MIRACULOUS EVENT giving them all BONA-FIDE SUPERPOWERS! THE SKY IS METAPHORICALLY THE LIMIT!!!!!


From that point on, there will be a great deal of leeway in what you lowlifes want to do with your powers. I have some plot-stuff worked out already, but am incredibly willing to add a lot of stuff based on the characters themselves, and their motivations, or simply ignore what I've got worked out entirely. If you want try to become king of the world- we can do that. If you just want a literal mountain of crack to sit on, that's fine. My current main worked-out plot and enemies will revolve around how these homeless people got powers, certain criminal elements in LA, and the possible other empowered people around the place. I'm going to be welcoming player initiative, and will be happy to either work on stuff secretly as private projects or details, or do something that the group agrees would be cool here.


As such:

• Superpowers will be picked randomly by me, from a list. I will show you said list, and if you have a strong preference, you will be able to indicate this, which I may just give to you if I feel like it Otherwise, people will be given an option of 2 randomly drawn powers. I will not show the method of random picking. It may involve pieces of paper, and a hat. I don't care so much about making it 'fair'. If you suggest a power and I really like it, then you might get it given to you, but this is, as they say, 'my party', so don't hold on for one specific ability.
• PVP stuff is possible, but unlikely. Two characters' clashing goals may lead them to conflict- but be warned, that the powers might be terribly dangerous. I will discourage but allow players to kill other players, if people are ok with it.
• If you have any ridiculous, insane, game-breaking ideas or plots you wanna try, ask me and we can work something out. This shit is SUPPOSED to be stupid.
• The juxtaposition between madcap super-antics and gritty crushing reality is absolutely vital to the way I envision this. These people have lead horrible lives, and this chance at freedom is not entirely a good thing.
• Long periods of unexplained inactivity will cause your characters to die awful, crushing deaths, which I will then pm to you; just to rub it in.

== CS ==

name:
age:
gender:
race:

description (photo not required, but allowed.):

personality:

personal history/current situation:

superpower preference (if any):


== SETTING ==

The rp is set in the underbelly of Los Angeles, December 2012. The mayor (<-OC, not real mayor) has instituted a real police crackdown recently due to election season, but this has largely ignored the highest and lowest elements of the criminal and vagrant societies. It has focused on the dealers and enforcers more than the bosses, and on the more 'visible' elements of the homeless. However, this has not stopped the steady growth of the 'Smilers' a gang run by a certain Mr. Ramirez, which has almost cornered LA's supply in everything from illegal guns to heroin.

Your characters will be linked by their connection to the NPC "Jones", a squatting dealer and ultradive bar 'owner'. Anyway, you might know him from him being an occasional supplier, or from a direct personal connection, but most likely because of the bar that he runs out of the front half of his 'house'- the abandoned basement of an actual bar, accessed from a back street, down a set of concrete stairs. The door is not marked except with the Smilers' gang sign- two open eyes and a grinning mouth. Inside, the bar is dirty and dark, a single bulb illluminating the room. Drinks (either moonshine brewed in the screen Jones uses to partition the room, or bottles stolen off the back of lorries) are served across a foldaway plastic table in cloudy glasses stolen from other bars, at prices that reflect the complete lack of overheads. The room is filled with a random mixture of furniture- plastic garden tables and chairs (stolen), posh looking iron filigree cafe tables (stolen), and worn and dusty sofas and carpets (donated by a local dump). Jones himself sleeps behind the partition, where he also experiments unsuccessfully in drug production. The bar serves as a meeting point, being as yet undiscovered by the police- it brings together fences, dealers, low-class pimps, and the homeless nobodies who make up their clientel and employees; and also allows more friendly meetings between these nobodies.

Jones himself is a thin, worn looking man, teeth yellowed from years of smoking and coarse grey hair. Awful sense of humour, terrible barman, insults people to their face. Demanding, lazy, arrogant and ugly. He wears a horrific ancient leopard print suit. Indeterminate age, but has been running the bar for as long as anyone remembers. His unsuccessful attempts at dealing mean that, although he has small supplies of certain substances, most people will be reliant on others for their habit.

It isn't necessary for the players to have a detailed connection with the bar- at the point where you guys gain powers, there has already been rumours of people with powers appearing for a couple of weeks, and the word has gone around that people with powers ought to meet there. However, you would have heard of the place, and would likely know at least a few other players, especially if you're a long-standing member of the 'community'. As you may have guessed, it's my intention to use the bar as a kind of hub for you guys, from which you can meet others to go off and do whatever you want to. As such, the structure for the first few posts will be relatively closed, compared to the rest of the rp- and I'll tell you when it opens out properly again. You will have to get to or be in the bar within 2 or three posts, so that when you enter there's an oppertunity for dialogue and character interaction, to work out what you wanna do next- I imagine you'll want to split into groups, though you might act all together. I'd discourage people from going off entirely alone or in pairs- that could be a bit dull.. Since I'm putting the power development as spaced across a larg-ish gap, you might have only developed the power today, or even up to two weeks ago at the earliest. You may want to start in the bar, and narrate the gaining of the power through flash-backs, or start elsewhere and then go there. There is no known common source for your powers as yet, and there does not seem to be any connection in who gains them except that all the rumours and known power-users are homeless people.

== CAST LIST ==

GARY the DRUNK: CLONES
XAVIER the PSYCHOPATH: CONSUMPTION
LEX the THIEF: THIEVERY
JOE as TAITO KODAGI: MANLY MANLY FIGHTAN MAGIC
AUSTIN THE CAT: INVASION
SNARK the EMO: TRANSFORMATION
OLIVIA the PROSTITUTE: BEES
GARRY the 'FIGHTER': IS PLAYING "LEGEND OF HOMLESS: HOMELESS SWORD"
GEFF the PERVERT: SHAPESHIFTING
SOFIYA the DEFINITELY FEMALE HOOKER: TELEPORT OTHER
JACK the ADDICT: HALLUCINATION


== POWERLIST ==

• TRANSFORMATION: Allows the user to change into a some form of hideous monster. If you get this power, there's leeway on what I'll allow for transformations. All sorts of horrible abilities in transformed form. Clothes have a tendancy to rip.
• MENTAL: this ability allows for telepathic powers, but it's use leaves target mentally scarred. Can only use powers on one person at a time. Can control a person's actions and read their mind but extended use will induce different levels of mental trauma. Control will always put the victim into a coma for a duration after it finishes.
• TYPECAST: if you appear to be something, you gain abilities associated to it. People react to your appearance, regardless of the actuality.
• REGENERATION: can regerate from even seemingly mortal wounds. Injuries to brain will be bad for the character. Can regenerate others to a limited degree, and somewhat slower than on himself through physical contact.
• HALLUCINATION: ability to cause poeple to see incredibly graphic visions.
• FIRE BREATHING: can breath fire all over the place.
• VOMIT: ability to projectile puke horrible glowing radioactive acid on command.
• LASEREYE: only one eye is a laser, has to wear an eyepatch/keep it closed. Blind whilst utilising power, thus will result in random devastation when used.
• BEES: Ability to hatch horrifying psychic bees from the body. Bees controlled psychically, and can sting a few times before death. Huge swarms, or individual insects can be called.
• AWESOME: snaps fingers for a random effect.
• FEEDING: on matter once part of a living thing temporarily gives strength and powers equivalent to that person. This includes reductions in strength and intellegence, and to powers. This also applies to animal meat (I have the strength and studity of a hamburger!). Overwritten each time something new is fed on.
• TELEKINESIS: Only works on money or valuable items.
• APPLIED INVISIBILITY/VISIBILITY: Ability to make people pay you more/less attention. Whilst paying you attention, people will tend to treat you like a VIP. in invisible state, people will ignore you completely.
• LUCK: Gives a supernatural degree of luck, giving the ability to pull all kinds of crazy shit. Character not aware this is a power.
• CORROSIVE ENERGY BLASTS: ability to fire corrosive blasts of energy
• SHAPESHIFTING: can change appearance to look like anyone they like.
• ELECTRICITY POWERS: can generate bolts and arcs of electricity. A bit rubbish.
• SOUND BASED POWERS: incredibly loud/powerful shockwaves generated by shouting.
• SHADOW: your shadow lifts off the floor and acts as an attacker. Power depends on the size of shadow.
• TELEPORT OTHER: ability to teleport/summon other people to you, who are then forced to obey three simple orders. they are fully conscious meanwhile, and will know what has happened afterwards. ("Follow me and kill anyone who attacks me" would be two). Works based on shouting, eg: "Help me, Bruce Lee!"
• MEMORY MANIPULATION: can edit others memories by physical contact. Target is knocked unconscious whilst edit is being done, and awakes with no memory of being knocked unconscious automatically.
• VISUAL MATERIALISATION: ability to visualise an object and materialise it out of thing air. the objects are temporary creations, and will vanish when the creator stops paying full attention to them.
• "PHEROMONE" CONTROL- can make auras around people that make others associate emotion with that person- attraction, fear, hatred etc. Works on self and others.
• PHASEWALKING: through walls/floors. phasing through people will kill them. Can bring others with them through physical contact.
• SUPERSTRENGTH: lots of raw explosive power, no speed to back it up.
• SUPERSPEED: Heightened reaction times and movement speed. No stamina to back it up- can only use the ability in very short bursts.
• CURSING: Ability to curse people with varied and interesting results. Curse takes up to an hour to begin working, depending on strength; "go die!" would be long; "I hope your hair falls out", very short.
• BATMAN
• INVASION: able to "invade" living beings. Your body dissapears, and you enter their body. You can walk around and act as them, or simply watch what they do natually. when the time expires (about an hour), or they die, you appear next to their body.
• WEATHER CONTROL: can change the weather, and it's actions when changed.
• BOX POWERS- if puts something in a box, or container of any sort, that item vanishes into a pocket universe. Things can then be retrieved from any container, with only the desire to retrieve said item necessary. (what happens if you put YOURSELF in the box?)
• GHOST POWERS: when you die, you turn into a ghost. you can be seen by others if you wish, can move or manipulate objects with telekinesis, and can create ghostly apparitions. Can also summon help from other ghosts. Appear to be powerless before death.
• RPG VERSION: you begin to hallucinate a HUD over the world, like that of an rpg, showing your, and other players health etc (map, inventories, skills, mana bar, experience bar). can fill the experience bar and level up by defeating enemies, or completing quests. Noone else can see these things, and they are intrusive. a fairy helper-figure (see Navi) might be generated by your power to help you with your adventures. Only you can hear them.
• CLEAR BODY: ability to transform entire body into any type of liquid. can control body in this state in any way they choose- cannot manipulate more than the body's mass. Prevents stat reduction.
• PHOTO: can turn pictures into reality. can turn reality into pictures.
• PLAGUE: Can poison food by touching it, can strike people down with sudden, awful disease from afar. Disease can spread (or not) as you choose.
• THIEVERY: Can 'steal' things remotely, teleporting them into the thief's hand. Requires a certain proximity to the target.
• BANANA POWERS
• CONSUMPTION: ability to absorb others. Requires you simply to place the hand on their hand, then their entire physical body is sucked into your hand. Absorbs all memorys, strength, and powers. Addictive.
• GRAVITY: Can manipulate gravity's pressure to an enormous extent; you are also affected.
• GENDERSWAPPING: Can swap other people's gender as well.
• FINGERBANG: by pointing at people and shouting "BANG BANG BANG" you are able to cause painful impacts on their body. Enough hits on one person will cause unconsciousness.
• WEEABOO FIGHTAN MAGIC: Allows you to gain strength and heal yourself based on the force of your willpower, and on resistance to adversity. Requires inspirational speeches, incoherent yelling, or manly resolution to use.
• NATURE: Ability to make plants, trees etc. grow anywhere you choose. Very fast to grow- takes only a second for the plant to go from a shoot to full size.
• FLYING: Ability to fly.
• OBJECT MIMICRY: Can turn yourself into any imagined object. The object breaking will not affect your health- when you un-transform you will appear where the largest piece of the object was, the rest disappearing.
• ANIMAL CONTROL: Can psychically control large numbers of animals or insects (not BEEs).
• BREAKING: If you focus hard when you punch something, it will break in some way.
• ENTROPY: Ability to increase or decrease the amount of heat in an object very quickly by projecting 'heat' or 'cold' rays.
• CLONES: Can turn other people into a clone of yourself by a somewhat difficult process. Clones will act autonomously, but generally under player control.

Certain of the powers are left vague- if your character selects one of these powers I will pm you with full details of it's capabilities once you have made your choice. If you really dislike both powers, I'll be giving out a few in a third round once most people have decided, which you will have an opportunity to grab instead. Progression (with some exceptions) will largely come from the characters themselves, rather than a radical growth in powers.

If there's anything else unclear to you, or my use of English has confused you, DO NOT HESITATE TO ASK

PEACE OUT

[Mogtaki]

Possible to select a power just now before the CS is made? Mine kinda needs it since their appearance relies on it after the terrible event. Going to go with transformation so part of his appearance will be altered as opposed to ordinary human look.

[RutulianJoe]

No. The power that most resembles what you want is the transformation power; which is temporary. You will not be able to play a character who is transformed the whole time, because the police and anyone else with a gun will shoot you on sight and you will die REALLY REALLY fast. There is no known 'event' as such either; people woke up with these powers one day, used them by accident without knowing how they started.

[Mogtaki]

Nah, they're not the whole time, it's possible to hide the problem area. There's a picture of them on my deviantart. I just have a good idea on that character and what it's going to be like, plus it's possible to develop.

[RutulianJoe]

At first glance it doesn't look monstrous enough. Just make a CS and we'll work it out from there.

[Mogtaki]

Hahah yeah, but you should see his monster form. I just find it easier to get things verified before I go all out for a while making a highly detailed CS.

[Durandal]

OH. MY. GOD. WEEABOO FIGHTAN MAGIC.

But in all seriousness, I'd probably play a schizophrenic hobo villain with the power of BEES.

[CraftWork]

Decisions, decisions, should I be a runaway or just a crazy person...

Most likely both.

[AAB]

"Is everyone except me going to be a psycho? It's beginning to feel that way D:"
I tried playing a psycho once. It was painful. I won't be doing it again any time soon.

[Durandal]

Actually, if I do decide on Weeaboo Fightan Magic, I'll probably play a 20-something guy that just never figured out how real life is supposed to work, and his understanding of the world is mostly based on, well, traditional hot-blooded anime stereotypes. "FIGHTING FOR JUSTICE!", indeed.